Figurehead & Other Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollander, John

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Summary:

One of the most gifted of W.H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings - here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper. By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking, ingenious, and always clever, Hollander's poems are a joy for the reader. He is a modern master.

Contents:

So Red

A Fragment Twice Repaired

Where Was When

Las Hilanderas

Arachne's Story

Forget How to Remember How to Forget

Getting from Here to There

Across the Board

Variations on a Table-Top

Dickcissel

X's Syndrome

Two Predators

Fancying Things Up

A Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land

The Parade

There or Then

Fire!

Digital

Owl

M and M's

Figurehead

An Old Image

Emblem

Two Glosses on Rene Magritte

Sun in an Empty Room

Erasing a Bad Name

Charles Sheeler's The Artist Looks at Nature

What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought

Long After

Ghazal

Then All Smiles Stopped Together

An Afterword

Early Birds

Beach Whispers.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-307-55611-5

OCLC:

842915759